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_refugee_  ·  4401 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do you do to improve your skills?

I'm just going to jump in and burst the bubble; the 10,000 hour rule is a myth. It's grounded in a good idea, which is that time and effort usually yield improvement, but the idea that anything can be mastered in 10k hours, or that conversely, with 10k hours you can master anything, is - at best - a theory. I do think that everyone has one or two 'skills' (or lack of skills, really) that they are probably not going to achieve excellence in, regardless of how much time and effort they put in.